Dear Jane,

Exciting stuff. Be sure to contact the people from 
http://commonsmachinery.se/about-us/ <http://commonsmachinery.se/about-us/> to 
ask about their experience.

Best,

Maarten

> Op 30 sep. 2015, om 09:58 heeft Yongmin Hong <[email protected]> het volgende 
> geschreven:
> 
> If you want Commons' community opinion, you'd better see commons-l. (CC'd)
> 
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> 2015. 9. 30. 오전 6:19에 "Jane Park" <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>님이 작성:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I lead platform work <https://github.com/creativecommons/platform-initiative> 
> at Creative Commons. As part of that work, we are exploring the potential of 
> a standard field in EXIF that could make attribution and license info more 
> sticky across the web. We are currently in the research phase -- talking to 
> major image hosting platforms (and platforms that read and ingest images) 
> about what kinds of image metadata they read and retain. Zhou and his 
> engineering team at Wikimedia directed me to this list as I am seeking 
> feedback from the Wikimedia community.
> 
> Ultimately, we want to make it easier for platforms to display provenance and 
> license info -- increase the likelihood that when a user lands on an image, 
> they know who created it and what license to use it under. For example, 
> images from Wikimedia Commons may get tweeted, but the image metadata is not 
> retained in tweets. How can we work with platforms to use the same metadata 
> standard so that info can be retained across them?
> 
> Since we are just in the research phase now, I welcome your thoughts on 
> Wikimedia Commons' and Wikipedia's own uses of image metadata. Specifically:
> The most common image metadata standards we know about are EXIF and XMP. 
> Which does Wikimedia primarily read and retain? Are there others that are 
> more widely used?
> Which standard does Wikimedia prefer? What would be easiest to implement? for 
> Wikimedia, but also for the platforms that Wikimedia interfaces with. Aka, 
> what are the pros and cons of each?
> Lastly, welcome any general thoughts about the feasibility and need for such 
> a project. 
> 
> Best,
> Jane
> 
> 
> Jane Park
> @janedaily
> Creative Commons | Los Angeles
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